BY MATT SCHOOLEYArea police departments are teaming up to show residents just how they work and will host a Citizens Academy for five residents in Dunbarton, Allenstown, Pembroke and Bow. The eight-week course will give residents the chance to experience classes in police procedures such as fingerprinting, foot-imprint casting and a mock trial ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERA family lost almost everything in a two-alarm fire that ravaged their Weare home on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Weare firefighters, the first to arrive on the scene at 11 Cilley Hill Road, said the blaze started about 12:51 p.m. Local trucks arrived within five minutes. Later, teams from Henniker, Bow, Dunbarton, New Boston and Hopkinton ...

BY SARAH LEBRUNThe Dec. 11 ice storm left thousands without power and and curtailed the operation of many businesses and organizations throughout town, including the schools. In New Boston, officials closed the Central School from Dec. 12 to 18. Students went back to school Friday, Dec. 19. SAU 19 Assistant Superintendent of School Brian Balke ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY With Halloween arriving, not all students will be getting tricks or treats in the classroom, as many schools have shifted away from traditional festivities. One school that has done away with Halloween festivities is Hooksett’s Fred C. Underhill School, as Assistant Principal Ralene St. Pierre said the school has been ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORStu Goldstein of Dunbarton said he didn’t enter the Granite State Senior Games expecting to win anything. He was simply looking to regain the competitive feeling he experienced while exhibiting his athletic prowess in gymnastics for 35 years. “Last year I saw it in the paper, and I was 49, and I said, ‘Hey, ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYLong after the snow has melted beneath the warm rays of spring sunshine, New Hampshire towns will still be feeling Mother Nature’s wrath. This time, it won’t be barraging residents from the sky. Instead, it will hit them under their tires. “I was coming from Hannaford the way I come up every day,” said Jane ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The Bow Dispatch Center will see more revenue in the coming year from the four other towns it services as the town attempts to bring the center’s costs for service more in line with its financial capability. It costs about $400,000 to run the dispatch center, said Bow Police Chief Jeff Jaran, and under the new ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK After dropping out of this year’s state Little League softball tournament, Bow players learned practice skills and life-lessons were important by-products of the experience. But the most important aspects each all-star takes from the season are newfound friendships and a handful of memories. Bow’s 11- and ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Though the Bow, Dunbarton and Hopkinton school districts missed only one day of school over the winter, the month of April has proven to be more costly than usual in terms of missed class time. This year, April showers will bring additional school days in June. Hopkinton On Tuesday, April 17, Harold Martin Elementary ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR A tree fell on Clinton Street in Bow, causing a chain reaction of events that eventually led to Doug and Katherine Crabb’s downstairs looking more like a wading pool than a basement. The tree that fell knocked out power lines, causing electricity in the area to be out for more than three hours, and stopping the sump ...